Freedom’s Award-Winning Prophet
June 8, 2009
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, winner of ForeWord’s Book of the Year Gold Award for Biography, was recently the subject of a… READ MORE
Category: American Studies
“Any person who is in any way deformed shall not expose himself to public view.”
May 27, 2009
Chronicle Weekly wrote up a brief tale from Susan Schweik’s The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. Excerpt below, full story here. On patrol in Omaha in 1974, a police officer… READ MORE
Susan Boyle: Just Another Unregulated High Risk Investment?
May 15, 2009
Andrew Ross, Chair of NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, is author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. Illustration courtesy of… READ MORE